gtktreeview API request

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

I would find it very useful (and I think some others might too) if 
there were a means of getting a pointer to the current GtkEntry (if 
any) in a treeview containing editable text cells: say

GtkWidget *gtk_tree_view_get_entry (GtkTreeView *tree_view)

which would return NULL if there's no active editable entry, and the 
appropriate widget pointer otherwise.

Without this, it's very difficult if not impossible to get a 
treeview to act like a simple spreadsheet, where the user can move 
to a given cell and simply start typing to fill out the cell's data. 
The GTK programmer can arrange that, e.g., typing a number starts 
the cell editing process, but then the first number typed is "eaten" 
and there's no way (that I can see) to pass it into the GtkEntry 
that is created as part of the cell editing process: this widget is 
private and inaccessible.

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Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University, NC